Fast Forward... Inventing the Future

Dickson Despommier

Dickson Despommier, Microbiologist and Medical Ecologist

Columbia University, New York, N.Y.

Despommier is leader of the visionary Vertical Farm Project, which proposes to grow food in high-rise buildings in urban centers, helping to feed increasing urban populations while also allowing sprawling farmland to be returned to nature. Inside the gallery, guests will see a large scale model of Despommier's vertical farm concept and also play an interactive game that will teach them more about the possibilities of urban agriculture.